Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming events
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GDI Lecture: Decolonization and the Future of Academic Research
16:30 - 18:00 19 March 2025
On the panel: - Diana Mitlin (African Cities Research Consortium, GDI) - Eyob Balcha Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (Slum Dwellers International and GDI) - Tina Cribbin (Aquarius Savers, Ageing Well in Place in Hulme) How can development research – and universities more generally – overcome the traditional...
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GDI Webinar: Does the "Melting Pot" Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants' Integration
13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2025
Speaker: Alexander Yarkin, Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University (2023), Post-doc at UC Davis (Global Migration Center) Chair: Isaac López-Moreno Flores, Development Economist and PhD Candidate, Global Development Institute Abstract: The global spread of the Internet and the rising salience of immigration are two of the biggest trends of the...
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Climate Crimes and Human Rights: Examining the Efficacy of Human Rights, International Law and Criminal Law in the Fight for Climate Justice
16:00 - 17:30 24 March 2025
Seminar hosted by the Climate and Justice Study Group Speaker: Paul Clark, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Given the role that the law and the courts play in contemporary governance both domestically and internationally, it is unsurprising that litigation is viewed by many as a key weapon in the fight against climate change. The invocation of...
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Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets
24 - 25 March 2025
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow on more than one image or to develop a bespoke...
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Contesting "Just" Transitions in South Africa
15:30 - 17:00 27 March 2025
Politics, Governance, and Management research seminar Speakers: Alex Beresford (University of Leeds) Ruth Bookbinder (University of Leeds) The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) between South Africa and a collection of Western countries (USA, UK, France, EU and Germany) is hailed as a blueprint for energy transitions in the global south....
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GDI Film Screening: One Side of the Road
17:00 - 19:00 27 March 2025
GDI is hosting a film screening of One Side of the Road, a documentary film by Jalil Nordman (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development-DIAL), on Thursday, 27th March at 5-7pm in A101, Samuel Alexander Building. The award-winning documentary explores the segregation and oppression of Dalit populations in southern India and...
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GDI Alumni Talk - Development in Action: What They Don't Teach You in School
12:00 - 13:30 4 April 2025
Speaker: Taio Gardey, Farming Out Of Poverty (FOOP) Join us for an open conversation with Taio Gardey, an alumnus of the University of Manchester and Executive Director of Farming Out of Poverty (FOOP), an NGO empowering farmers in Sierra Leone to overcome hunger and poverty. Taio will share his journey from studying International Development...
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Digital Health equity seminar: Focus On Research and EQUITY: integrating an intersectoral equity lens into health-related research
13:00 - 14:00 9 April 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 9-Apr-2025 1-2pm BST via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99046314977). Distinguished Professor Jennie Popay from the University of Lancaster will talk about Focus On Research and EQUITY: integrating an intersectoral equity lens into health-related research. For more information about...
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GDI Lecture: Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India
16:30 - 16 April 2025
Speaker: Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University) India entered a new political and economic phase in 1991 with adoption of the structural adjustment programme. Since then, studies have tended to focus on global and national factors to understand ongoing political processes in the country. With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding...
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GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities
16:30 - 18:00 23 April 2025
Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and as animosity against Jews. Contextualising events provides a different interpretation. It is not to justify what happed, rather to understand and assess these events in wider political context, with specific reference to escalating settler attacks...
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